Letztes Update:
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Join us tomorrow for more, starting at 11

20:24
17.03.2022
That was the ceremony marking the 100th birthday of pioneering thinker Egon Bahr. Tomorrow, the 5th Egon Bahr Symposium will take place, attended by some exciting guests, including:
  • Franziska Giffey, Governing Mayor of Berlin
  • Lars Klingbeil, Chairman of the SPD
  • Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Luxembourg
The event continues as of 11 a.m., live at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin, with a live stream and, of course, here on the liveblog. -fw

Katrin Rulle

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Roundtable Discussion: "A challenger ..." turns one hundred

Irina Mohr, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, says at the end of the discussion, We spent exactly one hour with Egon Bahr. That hour brought us close to him. 20:24
17.03.2022

Decreasing willingness to cooperate

19:22
17.03.2022
Nothing inevitably stays as it is, says Hans Joachim Gießmann, picking up on one of the central ideas in Bahr's thinking. Unfortunately, this openness to change applies in all directions, something we are currently seeing in today's difficult sitution. Much has been said about these changing times, and the decreasing willingness of an international actor to cooperate. We are only at the beginning of this change but he says he finds hope in the the signal effect of the West's absolute unity and establishment of transparency in Russia. -sf

Katrin Rulle

Peter Brandt, historian We know preparation of the Ukraine invasion was under way for about a year. 20:19
17.03.2022

Cooperation must be the guiding principle

19:53
17.03.2022
Politics in the 21st century has to be fundamentally oriented towards cooperation, says peace researcher Götz Neuneck. He spells it out: "We can only change the pandemic through a joint strategy. No state alone can halt this pandemic." That is a paradox that "many people do not understand," he says. "We need cooperation even in the presence of doom as a possibility." Neuneck says he hopes that politicians understand this paradox, since the alternative could be "the demise of the world of states in one fell swoop." -ls

Katrin Rulle